Robert Frost

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Biography
Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco California. His father died when he was about eleven years old. After college he had many occupation like he became a teacher, a cobbler, and an editor. His first professional poem was "My Butterfly." It was published in 1894. In 1895 he married Elinor Miriam White. Frost was influenced by poets such as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. Ezra Pound helped Frost publish and promote his work. In 1912, Frost went to England with his wife and children. There, in England, is where Robert Frost published his collections A Boy's Will and North of Boston. In 1915 he returned back to the U.S. In 1916 Robert Frost was made member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. That same year, Robert Frost also published his third collection Mountain Interval. His wife died in 1948. His two daughters had mental breakdowns and his son commited suicide. He recited two of his poems at the inauguration of President John Kennedy. He passed away on January 29, 1963
 Major Works

  • His three collections were A Boy's Will (1913) , North of Boston (1914) and Mountain Interval.
  • He won four Pulitzer prizes.
  • He recited two of his poems at the inauguration of President John Kennedy in 1961.
  • His first proffesional poem was "My Butterfly."
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
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 Personal Reaction: I picked this poem because i felt very inspired by it. It kind of tells that the world will eventually end one day either by incinerating or by an ice age. But when Frost starts talking about hate and desire it starts to make you think of a different meaning to the ice and fire. I think Robert Frost is infering to as though fire is love and ice is hate because love and hate are two different emotions just like fire and ice are two different elements. Also Frost uses that his desire would be for fire.
Poetic Devices Used: I think Robert Frost is using symolism in this poem because Robert Frost is using ice and fire as a way to symbolize love and hate. Also Robert frost uses metaphors when he compares fire with love and ice with hate. He is also comparing the world to "yourself" saying that either hate or love can destroy a human personally.
Explanation of the Rhyme Scheme: The ryme scheme of this poem is A, B, A, A, B, C, B, C, B.
Historical context: There was a lot of conflict during the period in whuch Robert Frost wrote this poem.
Explanation of the Theme: The theme of this poem is love and hate and that you can copare it to fire and ice. It takes about how love and hate can destroy someone.
To The Thawing Wind
Come with rain. O loud Southwester!
Bring the singer, bring the nester;
Give the buried flower a dream;
make the settled snowbank steam;
Find the brown beneath the white;
But whate'er you do tonight,
bath my window, make it flow,
Melt it as the ice will go;
Melt the glass and leave the sticks
Like a hermit's crucifix;
Burst into my narrow stall;
Swing the picture on the wall;
Run the rattling pages o'er;
Scatter poems on the floor;
Turn the poet out of door.
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 Personal Reaction:I really like the way the poem sounds because it has a nice rythm to it. I also like the way the poem is describing what wind can do.
Poetic devices used: This poem is using metaphor and personification to describe the way the wind is changing things.
Explanation Of The Rhyme Scheme: the ryme scheme is A,A,B,B,C,C,D,D,E,E,F,F,G,G,G.
Historical Context: Robert Frost was a big fan of nature!
Explanation of the theme: Robert frost is explaining how the wind is slowly changing the seasons from winter to spring. Also, he describes the changes that are happening.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
 Personal Reaction: I enjoyed this poem because I believe it relates to my life. At times I take the road less traveled by and that is what makes me different from everyone else
Poetic devices used: metaphor.
Explanation of the ryhme scheme: A,B,A,A,B,C,D,C,C,D,E,F,E,E,F,G,H,G,G,H.
Historical context: There was a war going on and a lot of conflict.
Explanation of the theme: Robert frost I think is using the roads and comparing them to life and saying that if you take the road less traveled by it is what will make you unique in life.
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Bibliography

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BOOK
  • Stanlis, Peter. Frost: the Poet as Philosopher. Wilmington, Del.: ISI, 2007. Print
  • Parini, Jay. Robert Frost: a Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. Print.
  • Caravantes, Peggy. Deep Woods: the Story of Robert Frost. Greensboro, N.C.: Morgan Reynolds Pub., 2006. Print.
  • Kirk, Connie Ann. A Student's Guide to Robert Frost. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2006. Print.
  • Wooten, Sara McIntosh. Robert Frost: the Life of America's Poet. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2006. Print.